New York January 6, 1776 2s Gem New....

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New York January 6, 1776 2s Gem New. A gorgeous example of
this New York City Water Works Issue. Besides its perfect grade, it
has two other interesting features: the first is that the back is
inverted, and the second involves the manufacturing process of the
paper. All notes from this issue were printed on two separate
pieces of paper that had been glued to each other since before the
printing process. The face was printed on a fine grain, light
colored paper, and the back on a much coarser, heavy dark paper. On
this particular example, the end of the dark paper failed to reach
the edge of the note, so that portions of the back design are
actually printed on the back side of the face paper. We've seen
this happen before, but never on an example with an inverted back.